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Contemporary Japanese architects : profiles in design / Igarashi Taro ; translated by David Noble.

by Igarashi, Tarō, 1967- author.

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Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018.

Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.

Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 21st century.

Architects -- Japan.

9784866580210 (hardcover)

4866580216 (hardcover)

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

I. Rising from the ashes : the Prewar generation -- Tange Kenzō : a national architect in the era of Greater East Asia -- Kurokawa Kishō : Buddhism and metabolism -- Isozaki Arata : an architect torn between fiction and reality -- II. Breaking out of the box : the generation born in the 1940s -- Andō Tadao : geometries of concrete, reflecting the environment -- Itō Toyoo : a new architecture for the information age -- Sakamoto Kazunari : free architecture, or the construction of overlapping systems -- Fujimori Terunobu : the incomparable architect(ural historian) -- Iijima Naoki : at the boundaries of interior design -- III. A light and transparent architecture : the generation born in the 1950s -- Sanaa : design reconfiguring spatial form -- Sejima Kazuyo : distorting distance through a glass landscape -- Nishizawa Ryūe : an architecture beyond images and words -- Kuma Kengo : high-speed gamer -- IV. Adapting to changing conditions : the generation born in the 1960s -- Atelier Bow-Wow : post-bubble Japanese realism -- Abe Hitoshi : architecture as media suit -- Tezuka architects : straight modern, or the strength of architecture -- Endō Shūei : geometries for measuring the Earth -- V. Globalism or Galapagos : the generation born in the 1970s -- Fujimoto Sou : toward a new geometry -- Ishigami Jun'ya : weightless landscapes, spaces of relativity -- Principles and phenomena : looking to the future.

"Architects play an essential role in contemporary society, helping to shape the environment in which we live and work. This book explores how architects in Japan have responded to the demands of their times and how they continue to engage with new economic realities and the shifting global order. The moving image of Japanese society is reflected in the work of the architects profiled tin this book: from the generation rising from the ashes of postwar Japan, through the postwar economic boom, to the generation that quietly gathered strength during the recession of the 1970s; from the generation that debuted in the bubble economy of the 1980s to the generation that began their work after the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and the collapse of the bubble economy; and finally, after decades of economic stagnation, to the generation that has come to the fore since the early twenty-first century. Contemporary Japanese architects have pioneered developments in sustainability and introduced engineering innovations that have changed not only the look of modern buildings but the ways in which they can be constructed. Japanese design concepts, realized in major public buildings around the world, communicate with a global audience and contribute toward shaping our shared future" --

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